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the tendency of non-experts to find psychological explanations more satisfying when irrelevant neuroscience information is added, even to poor explanations.

In psychology and law, seductive allure of neuroscience refers to the tendency of non-experts to find psychological explanations more satisfying when irrelevant neuroscience information is added, even to poor explanations. This meaning comes from Weisberg (2008) in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.[1]

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  1. Weisberg, D. S., Keil, F. C., Goodstein, J., Rawson, E., & Gray, J. R. (2008). The Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(3), 470-477. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2008.20040

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